Process of making a food product from lupine beans.



' )leasant flavor .and. possessing a food value -tions given,

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1 ADOLPI-IO DE SOUSA REIS, OF O PORTQ', PORTUGAL.

' PROCESS MAKING A FOOD PRODUCT FROM LU PINE BEANS;

in. 874,624; Specification of-Letteris Patent, Eatented. nee. 24,1907.

Application filed March 21:;1906. SeriaLNo. 307.672.

T cell whom it may concern: (such boiling or digestion, the beans are'sub Be it'known that I, AnoLrno DE Sousa i jected to maceration inmoving, REIS, a subject of the King of Portugal, rening cold Water for a period approximating siding at Oporto, in the Kingdom of iortu- 48 hours. v gal, have invented a certain new and 1111- I moves the soluble, bitter substances as well .proved Process of Making a Food Product as any of the acetic acid and salt remaining, from Lupine. Beans, of which the following leaving the nutritious portions of the bean is a specification. i completely free from objectionable material.

My invention relates to-the production of I a food product from the lupine-bean and consists in the process and the product repurpose and is then thoroughly dried at a sulting therefrom. l temperature of irom 50 to 60 C. A A dry Hitherto the lupine-bean has been of little product of agoldeii color, pleasant taste and or-no use as a food 'becauseit possesses, in addition to its highly nutritive constituent-s,. disclosed. -.This material may be sub ected certain objectionable. substances which rento grinding or comminuting operations necesder the fruit bitter and unpleasant to the saryior the production of any particularly taste and, therefore, undesirable as a food. 1 desired form of final product. This unpalatable characteristic of the lufpin'e-l I claim bean is due to the-presence of a bitter prin- 1. The hereindescrihed ciple co-e'xis'tent with the albuminoid for a food product from the proteid material or materials. A complete separation of the objectionable constituents from the desirable ones results in a wholesome product entirely devoid of any unmanner by means 0t devices ipine-bean which acetic acidand salt in the proportions submaterial in Water.

' 2, The -hereindescribedprocess oi making a food product from the hi1 greater than that of the original bean.

My invention has for its object the comconsists in boiling the same in Water contain- 'plete removal of the objectionable bitter ing acetic acid'and salt in the proportions principles found in the-fruit of the lupine in i substantially as specified, maeerating the maa "manner to render-the same serviceable as a food product. I v p i v To this end thoroughly cleansed beans in l 3. The her'eindescribed process of making their Whole state are boiled or'digested-for, a food product .from .the lupine bean which one hour in a mixture composed of the ingreconsists in boiling the same in water containdients' hereinafter mentioned in the 'propornamely, water 200'hters, acetic, substantially as specified, macerating the to remove soluble acid 1 liter," sea-salt 5; kilograms, this quanmaterial in running Water grinding I the 'j purified my being sul'licient the resulting product.

ing product.

for treatment of 100 undesired portions, liters of the lupine beans. The preferred material and drying form of such treatment is to bring the liquid In'testimony material to a state of thorough, rapid ebulli l inpresence of two witnesses;

tion and Whilein this condition .to add therei c a to the stated quantity of fruit to bedigested. .This treatment effects the coagulation-of the l l l 'ld i'tnesses: I

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I albuminoid material of the bean and renders it insoluble in Water. Immediately after This macerating operation re- The resulting material is ground in suitable known for such 1process of making consists in heating the samein a solution of lupine-bean Which ing acetic acid and sea salt in the proportions whereof I ai'iix my signature l l'iighnutritive value results from the process to stantially .a's specified and maceratin'g the .7

terial in runningwater and drying the-result- ADOLPHO DE soUsAREIs. r 

